Jacob Ziv, from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, won the Israel Prize in Exact Sciences. His research interests include data compression, information theory and statistical communication. Ziv, born in Israel, studied for a bachelor’s and master’s degree at the Technion in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, and completed his doctorate at MIT in the United States. In 1970 he returned to the Technion, this time as a faculty member. Over the years, he also engaged in research at Bell Laboratories in the USA as a visiting scientist. Ziv served as the head of the Israel Academy of Sciences and won national and international awards, including Israel’s Security Prize, the Marconi Prize, the IEEE Hamming Medal, the Shannon Award, the Rothschild Prize, an award from the BBVA Foundation Award and the EMET Prize.